Recommendations include strengthening background checks, raising the minimum age to purchase a military-style rifle, and making it a state crime to complete straw purchases, or the purchasing of a firearm on behalf of an individual knowingly unfit to obtain one.
June 29, 2022
"I don't care if you have on flip-flops and Bermuda shorts, you go in," Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said in testimony at a state Senate hearing.
June 21, 2022
The city and its police department are arguing against the release of the requested records, citing the following reasons: the city is being sued, some individuals' criminal history records could include "highly embarrassing information"; some of the information could reveal police "methods, techniques, and strategies for preventing and predicting crime..."
June 20, 2022
Surveillance video seems to show that the first time anyone tried to breach the doorway was when they had received the keys, more than an hour after the shooting began.
June 20, 2022
“I didn’t issue any orders,” Arredondo says. “I called for assistance and asked for an extraction tool to open the door.”
June 10, 2022
The assessment will examine issues including policies, training, communications, deployment and incident command, tactics, and practices as they relate to preparing for and responding to active shooter events, as well as the post-incident response.
June 9, 2022
The San Antonio Police Department says the officer responding to the incident was driving at high speeds over a hill when they crashed into the tow truck.
June 9, 2022
Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D-District 19), whose district includes Uvalde, said the calls with pleas for help from children inside Robb Elementary School as the shooting was taking place on May 24 were not shared with the Uvalde CISD Chief of Police Pete Arredondo.
June 3, 2022